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Love & Responsibility: A Work that is Ahead of Its Times - Carl Olson, Ignatius Insight Scoop

A Nation with the Soul of a Church - Jason Jones, Crisis Magazine

Searching for Beauty in Medicine - Redazione, Ilsussidiario

Pope to use iPad to Light up Christmas Tree (video) - Catholic Herald

Abp. Thomas Wenski of Miami to Celebrate Pontifical High Mass - Lex et Libertas, COALT

England & Wales: Efforts to Bring Back Lapsed Catholics - Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, WDTPRS?

Thoughts On The Preferential Option for the Poor & Vulnerable - Teresa Rice, Catholibertarian

How can I Learn more about the early Christian Fathers? - Dan Burke, Catholic Spiritual Direction

Church & Media: The Story of an Old Misunderstanding - Giacomo Galeazzi, La Stampa/Vatican Insider

Cletus The “Cuss Pig” - Sr. Marie Morgan OSF, Integrated Catholic Life™

End of the World?  Every Day is Judgement Day - Godwin Delali Adadzie, VirtuousPla.net

What Makes Those “Conservative Catholics” Tick? - DarwinCatholic, The American Catholic

Facebooking Ourselves to Death - Jake Tawney, Roma locuta est

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Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne attends a German Synodal Way assembly on March 9, 2023.

Four German Bishops Resist Push to Install Permanent ‘Synodal Council’

Given the Vatican’s repeated interventions against the German process, the bishops said they would instead look to the Synod of Bishops in Rome. Meanwhile, on Monday, German diocesan bishops approved the statutes for a synodal committee; and there are reports that the synodal committee will meet again in June.

Palestinian Christians celebrate Easter Sunday Mass at Holy Family Church in Gaza City on March 31, amid the ongoing battles Israel and the Hamas militant group.

People Explain ‘Why I Go to Mass’

‘Why go to Mass on Sundays? It is not enough to answer that it is a precept of the Church. … We Christians need to participate in Sunday Mass because only with the grace of Jesus, with his living presence in us and among us, can we put into practice his commandment, and thus be his credible witnesses.’ —Pope Francis